Dr. Henry Han

Biography

Xu (Henry) Han is an Assistant Professor of Management at the College of New Jersey and an Adjunct Associate Professor and Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in Management (Strategy) from the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Professor Han’s research focuses on how firms create value and sustain competitive advantage through corporate entrepreneurship and business model innovation. His studies delve into entrepreneurial team formation, learning, and the commercialization of innovative technologies, with particular emphasis on FinTech and renewable energy. His work has been published in leading academic and practitioner-oriented journals and has been presented at international conferences, earning him the 2024 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Paper Prize and the Empirical Paper Award from the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division. Professor Han serves on the editorial board of the Management Organization Review and teaches a wide range of topics regarding strategy and entrepreneurship, including business model innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, design thinking, early-stage financing, and digital transformation in undergraduate, MBA, and Executive Education programs. In practice, Professor Han co-founded a venture-backed climate-tech company that focuses on sustainability and deep tech innovation, and he advises startups and established firms on strategy and entrepreneurship challenges.

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